Soils blockbuster

Questions

1. What weathered PM is the origin of the mineral and organic content in soils?
2. What SP is a cross section of the soil from the surface downwards?
3. What ST is an indication of the size of the mineral particles in the soil?
4. What C are the positively charged mineral nutrients which adhere to the clay-humus complex?
5. What P are the soil forming factors, e.g. climate, vegetation and relief?
6. What C is the sequence of soils on a valley side?
7. What Z is a mature soil in equilibrium with the environment?
8. What BE is an acid soil originally developed under deciduous woodland in a temperate humid
climate?
9. What SA is reduced by applying dressings of lime?
10. What SE can be the result of cultivating steep slopes?
11. What R is a dark, greyish-brown, humus-rich soil found on areas of calcareous bedrock?
12. What L depletes the upper soil layers of organic material and nutrients?
13. What C is a soil type found in cool dry climates?
14. What A are the soils with a high pH (8 to 11) found in limestone areas?
15. What M is an acidic humus formed in areas of heather and ling moorland?

Answers

1. Parent material
2. Soil profile
3. Soil texture
4. Cations
5. Pedogenic
6. Catena
7. Zonal
8. Brown Earth
9. Soil acidity
10. Soil erosion
11. Rendzina
12. Leaching
13. Chernozems
14. Alkaline
15. Mor

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